Drugs & Targets

Drugs & Targets

EMA CHMP adopts positive opinion for Tabrecta in METex14 advanced NSCLC

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency adopted a positive opinion and recommended granting marketing authorization for Tabrecta (capmatinib) as a monotherapy for the treatment of adults with advanced non-small cell lung cancer harboring alterations leading to mesenchymal-epithelial-transition factor gene exon 14 (METex14) skipping who require systemic therapy following prior treatment with immunotherapy and/or platinum-based chemotherapy.
Drugs & Targets

Portage Biotech, NCI, Stimunity enter cooperative R&D agreement to develop STING agonists and anti-RAGE agents for cancer vaccines

Portage Biotech Inc., NCI, and Stimunity entered a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, under which they will collaborate with NCI’s Center for Cancer Research to advance preclinical and potential clinical development of STING agonists and anti-Receptor for Advanced Glycation End products (RAGE) agents to enhance the efficacy of cancer vaccines developed in the NCI CCR Vaccine Branch.